Conference of States Parties to the Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

New York, 1-3 September 2010

* CRPD/CSP/2010/1.

Item 6 (a) of the provisional agenda*

Election of the members of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities under article 34 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Note by the Secretary-General

1. Article 34 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities provides for the establishment of a Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It also provides that members of the Committee shall be elected by secret ballot from a list of persons nominated by the States parties from among their nationals at meetings of the Conference of States parties and that the initial election shall be held no later than six months after the date of entry into force of the Convention.

2. In compliance with article 34, paragraph 6, of the Convention, the Secretary-General, in a note verbale dated 3 May 2010, invited the States parties to submit their nominations for the election of 12 members of the Committee not later than 1 July 2010 The Secretary-General has prepared the following list, in alphabetical order, of all persons nominated by 1 July 2010, indicating the States parties that had nominated them. Nominations received after this date will be issued in addenda to the present document.

2. Founder member of the Oman Association for the Disabled (1995) and Chairman of the Board of directors (1995-2008)

3. Founder member of the Gulf Disability Society (1999) and member of the Board until the present time.

4. Active in the field of disability since 1985.

What made me active is my disability as I am one of the persons with disability due to a traffic accident in 1972.

I am acquainted and well aware of the issues of disability. I participated in many international conferences, seminars and workshop, locally and internationally.

I was nominated from among 50 nominees in the world to attend Washington conference in September 1999 in the United States of America. This conference was about independent living for the disabled in the new millennium.

I participated in the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities Second Session, 16-27th June 2003, in the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

I participated in training course Sida’s International Training Program Human Rights and Disability Sweden – Stockholm – August 27 – September 7, 2007.

I participated in the International Leadership visitor’s Program Disability Issues and Rights USA – May 13-17, 2009.

Award

Science Day awards for Social Services, Presented by the Ruler of Ajman (UAE)

1st April 2008.

Mr. Luis Guillermo Bulit Goni (Argentina)

Apellidos y nombre: BULIT GOÑI, Luis Guillermo.

Lugar y fecha de nacimiento: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 01/Julio/1955.

Idiomas de trabajo: Español / Inglés.

Cargo o función actual:

Gerente de Asuntos Jurídicos de ANSES. Vicepresidente de FIADOWN Federación Iberoamericana de Síndrome de Down. Presidente Consejo de ASDRA Asoc. S. de Down de Argentina. Miembro de la Junta Directiva de Fundación Iberoamericana Down 21 (España)

Consulting/ advisory service: Considerable experience as legal consultant /expert to the United Nations, European Union, German Government and German Legislator, and to various (international) non-governmental organizations

Research & Writing: 20 years of experience in research and writing with more than 60 publications

International experience: Over four years experience of living and working abroad in the USA (1986/87 and 1999/2000) in French-speaking Switzerland (1991) in the Netherlands (1994/95) and in South Africa (2004/2005)

Personal experience with disability: armless since birth

Awards:

2005 Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon of Germany

2003 Second Prize of “Courage 2003”, Readers survey of PARTIZIP and KOBINET (two disability magazines) on efforts for equal rights for disabled persons.

Quinn, Gerard /Degener, Th. (2002) Human rights and disability: The current use and future potential of United Nations human rights instruments in the context of disability, OHCHR, United Nations, New York and Geneva (U.N. Sales No: E.02.XIV.6)

2006-2009 Co-facilitator of a civil society coalition working on the new legal capacity legislation and implementation of CRPD article 12, Budapest

2004-2005 Temporary advisor, WHO European Regional Office, participation in drafting the WHO European Ministerial Declaration and Action Plan on Mental Health, Copenhagen

2004 Member of the drafting group of the Ministerial Decree on the prohibition of the use of caged beds in psychiatric facilities

2003-2006 Representative of the International Disability Caucus at the UN Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

2000-2006 Member of the Human Rights Standing Committee of the European Disability Forum, Brussels

2000-2003 Member of a fact finding mission by the Mental Disability Rights International (Washington DC) in Kosovo

Educational background

1996 Accredited course on dyscalculia at the Eötvös Loránd University, Bárczi Gusztáv College on Special Education, Budapest